Of our departed friends and colleagues...

Francis Mungroo, July 2008
The ITF is sad to announce the death of Brother Francis Mungroo. Francis started his career as a seaman; his first outing at sea was with the Saguenay Shipping Company Limited, where he organised the crew members to join the Seamen and Waterfront Workers Trade Union (SWWTU). (continue reading ..)

Sibusiswe Moyo, 11 June 2008
The ITF is deeply saddened to announce the death of Sibusiswe Moyo, Union and Country HIV/AIDS Coordinator for the Zimbabwe Amalgamated Railway Workers’ Union (ZARWU).  (continue reading ..)

Janek Kuczkiewicz, 8 April 2008
Janek Kuczkiewicz, ITUC Director of Human and Trade Union Rights, died suddenly on 8th April at his home in Brussels.  (continue reading ..)

Bill Goodger, 29 March 2008
The ITF is sad to announce that Bill Goodger, of the Special Seafarers’ Department, died suddenly on 29 March 2008, aged 57. Bill joined the Actions Unit, from UK affiliate RMT, in 1996, and remained a loyal and hardworking member of the Actions team for 12 years. (continue reading ..)

Karin Alleweldt, 19 February 2008
Everyone in the ITF was very shocked to hear of Karin's death.  She was a real internationalist, both in her early days working within the transport section of the OTV, and subsequently when she joined the international and european department of the German national centre the DGB. (continue reading ..)

Stefan Nedzynski, 8 January 2008
Stefan Nedzynski, former General Secretary of the Postal, Telegraph, Telephone International, PTTI, one of the organisations which merged in 2000 to form today's UNI died on 8th January.2008 at the age of 87. (continue reading ..)

Heribert Maier, 6 November 2007
The global trade union movement as a whole and I personally was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Heribert Maier at the age of 75 on November 6th in Graz, Austria, the town of his birth. (continue reading ..)

Ingrid Köhler, 11 October 2007
It is with great sorrow that the ITF has to announce that Ingrid Köhler, German Interpreter and Translator, died on 11th October in Guy's Hospital in London, following a serious illness. She was only forty-nine. (continue reading ..)

Richard Flint, 18 April 2007
Everyone at the ITF was deeply saddened to hear of Richard Flint’s death at the tragically young age of 47 on 18 April. (continue reading..)